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/rɪvˈərbərət/ /rɪvˈərbəreɪt/ Listen

Reverberate

verb

(past & past part. reverberated; pres. part. reverberating)

Ring or echo with sound. Synonyms: echo, resound, ring.

Have a long or continuing effect.

Be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves.

To throw or bend back (from a surface). Synonym: reflect.

Spring back; spring away from an impact. Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop. "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

Treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.

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"Reverberate" Quotes from Famous Books

... is intolerably slow. We had thought the many had finished with war. The few already are many grades ahead of that; the few have seen the virtues die out of patriotism and trade; they have watched the desire for self turn reptile, and hearkened to this truth which is beginning to reverberate around the world: What is good for beasts is not of necessity good for men.... One recent caller here, male, middle-aged, smilingly discussed all things from the philosophical point of view. ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... importance socially. A great law of feeling of whatever kind, of whatever elaboration, is this; it tends to spread from individual to individual and excites whole groups to the same feeling; tender feeling is contagious, and so is hate. We are somehow so made that we reverberate at a friendly smile in one way and to the snarl and stern look of hate in another way. Ordinarily love awakens love and hate awakens hate, though it may bring fear or contempt. It is true that we may feel so superior ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... Dick was seized with a very violent fit of coughing, which, coming as it did from such a capacious chest and so powerful a pair of lungs, caused the roof of the cavern to reverberate with what might have been mistaken, outside, for a species ...

— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne

... craven heart he feels also cowed, subdued, crestfallen. So much, he dares not follow her, but remains under the magnolia; from whose hollow trunk seems to reverberate the echo of her last word, in ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... men in the South do not inspire any such tendency. Men are judged there not by what they are and are to be, but by what they can now do. Only such things as have an echo in them, that reverberate in the ear of public opinion, that produce an effect of notice, honor, advancement in the OPINIONS of men, are relished. In the North, men are educated to be something—in the South to seem something. The North tends to doing—the South to appearing. ...

— Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society - Great Speech, Delivered in New York City • Henry Ward Beecher

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